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Deferring maintenance and repairs may appear to save corporations and organizations money in the short term, but the long-term costs are significant and disruptive, even resulting in complete shutdowns of facilities. Strategic Space Planning teams need to know the risks and consequences...

Directors of facilities are no strangers to the many struggles and responsibilities that come with their job titles, but the pandemic has introduced entirely new challenges. Already a member of upper facility management, their strategic outlook is now vital to successful return-to-office...

BOSTON, August 24, 2021 — Lambent, a crowd analysis and intelligence software company, today announced that it has raised $12 million in Series A financing led by Nimble Ventures, with additional new investment from Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital, and Micromanagement Ventures. _Existing investors...

The challenges posed by flexible workspaces are outpacing the space planning tools used for occupancy management. The manual nature of solutions like clicker studies, employee surveys, and manual door counts is time consuming and doesn’t deliver the insights space planners need to get ahead of...

Strategic Space Planning teams in higher education are increasingly pressured to help design flexible, dynamic spaces to meet the needs of a changing workforce, and a student population in search of nontraditional learning options. “One of the things that I think a lot of universities and maybe...

It’s viral, it’s the latest work trend, and it’s called Quiet Quitting. It is the idea of refusing to work overtime and not taking calls after work. Quiet Quitting has many workers rethinking the value of their jobs and the time and attention they assign to them. This trending topic is generating...

When I talk to partners and clients around the globe, I hear two common threads, whether it’s a premier sporting event venue or a small college campus. One is focused on actionable response,  and the other on improving long-term space management. The security and facilities teams I talk to want...

Flexible architecture design allows buildings and spaces to evolve over time. As technology and the way we work shifts changes, the spaces we use need to keep up with changes or risk becoming obsolete. Facilities management, design, and architecture teams traditionally bucket flexible...

CIOs and other organizational decision-makers are looking past the so-called digital sprints of 2020 and planning on transformation technology efforts, according to industry analysts. But when it comes to transformational efforts, does it make sense to go it alone–that is, do it yourself? Often,...

_Data indicates that organizations plan to continue a hybrid work model for the near term. A_ _Mercer survey_ _last May found 70% of companies said a blend of in-person and remote working will be the new normal._ _But this hybrid model will also place greater onus on employers and facility...

Corporations are facing the twofold challenge of having to reshape both physical offices and employee attitudes as they work to design return-to-office plans and satisfy a reluctant workforce. The challenge for the CRE industry is real – how to design for flexibility without adding more premium...

Everyone’s heard of remote and hybrid work models, but what about the “shybrid” approach? The term “shybrid” was first coined by Paul McKinlay, vice president of communications and remote working at printing company Cimpress, in a Bloomberg article in December. McKinlay described it as “the...